(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Almost 1000 days passed on the big battle of Daraya which was an exceptional in resistance and fighting against uncountable attacks and attempts of the Syrian regime and its militias to invade the poor Sunni community on the south-west outskirts of the capital town....

A mortar round fired by Islamic State militants caused a major blaze at a Syrian government headquarters building in the northeastern city of Hasaka and firefighters had put it out, state television said on Friday. The ultra hardline jihadists hit a civilian ID and passport office...

Iraqi Shi'ite militia fighters are tightening a noose around the Islamic State-held city of Falluja west of Baghdad as the first stage of a counter-offensive in the Sunni province of Anbar, likely to determine the course of the conflict in coming months. Islamic State seized...

Tunisian security forces have killed five Islamist militants in clashes in the mountains near the central town of Gafsa, and military helicopters were pursuing more in the area, a security source said on Friday. Tunisian forces are on high alert after last month’s attack on a beach resort that...

Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said on Friday regional states were not doing enough to stop the flow of militants into Iraq, and warned that the fighters would return one day to threaten their home countries. Islamic State has attracted Sunni Muslim...

Police staged raids across Turkey on Friday, detaining 21 people, most suspected of belonging to Islamic State, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Three of the detainees were foreigners, and authorities believe they were planning to enter Syria to fight for Islamic State,...

(By Ethar Abdulhaq; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Zaman al-Wasl has obtained an exclusive list of members defected from the regime’s forces, soldiers and non-commissioned officers, were reported in the beginning of this year. Surprisingly, dozens of the defected members were from areas of...

Turkey would struggle to cope with a new influx of refugees from Syria's civil war, and many of them would likely end up trying to get into Europe, Turkey's EU Affairs minister warned in comments published on Friday. Turkey is already sheltering close to 2 million Syrian migrants,...

Al Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, has recaptured districts that lost last April in Yarmouk refugee camp after a counter attack on regime forces in the embattled district in Damascus, killing 25 soldiers and militants, activists said on Thursday. Activists said Nusra had taken buildings...

 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to form new government, the presidential press office said on Thursday. "As of now we have started efforts to fulfill this duty and firstly we will hold talks with the chairmen of political parties," Davutoglu...

Former Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal died on Thursday, Saudi Arabian sources and media close to the kingdom's ruling family reported, two months after he was replaced following 40 years in the job. Prince Saud, who was 75, was the world's longest serving foreign minister...

A key rebel group operating under Southern Front in Daraa province, said over disputes with other rebel groups it will not continue its mission as a guardian of Nasib border crossing which rebels had captured last April, according to statement issued Wednesday. Yarmouk Army said some rebel...

ISIS fighters on Wednesday have pressed advances in the eastern countryside of Homs province, getting closer to government-held city of Homs, field sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The ultra-hardline Islamist group took more districts near Furuqlus town that situated on the eastern gate of...

The European Union's chairman joined growing international calls for Greece to be granted debt restructuring as part of any new loan deal if it delivers convincing reforms to avert imminent bankruptcy. The call was an implicit challenge to Germany, Athens' biggest creditor,...

The number of Syrian refugees in neighboring countries has passed 4 million, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Thursday, adding that the total was on course to reach 4.27 million by the end of 2015. "This is the biggest refugee population from a single conflict in a generation. It is a...

An airstrike by Syrian regime in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killed 15 people, including 6 children, on Wednesday as helicopter gunships pounded a rebel-held neighborhood, activists said. Zaman al-Wasl local reporter said the bombing had targeted Ibad al-Rahman mosque in al-Bab...

An Israeli civilian is being held against his will by the Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israel said on Thursday. Hamas, the Palestinian enclave's dominant faction, declined to comment. Israel suspects militants in Gaza would use its citizens to bargain for the release of Palestinians...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A document published in WikiLeaks among thousands of Saudi diplomatic files, showed that a British member in the parliament, known of his support to Israel, had visited Basher al-Assad many times and discussed the situation in Syria and Palestine. The document...

A Syrian Kurdish militia on Wednesday recaptured a town that had been stormed by Islamic State fighters earlier this week north of the jihadist group's base of operations in Raqqa city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. Islamic State fighters had stormed the town...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad signed a law ratifying a $1 billion credit line from top regional ally Iran, Syria's state news agency SANA said on Wednesday, funds which will help ease economic strains from the costly war. The agreement was between two state-owned banks, the...